[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER VI 38/43
Do you know that she liked you immensely the other even big? I have never known her take to any one at once, so strongly. She told me afterwards that you had done her more good than fifty doctors--just your being there--so that if, sometimes, you could come and see her----" He did not know what it was that suddenly, at her words, brought the terror back to him.
He saw Mrs.Craven so upright, so motionless, looking at him across the room--with recognition, with some implied claim.
Why, he had spoken scarcely ten words to her.
How could he possibly have been of any use to her? And then, afraid lest his momentary pause had been noticeable, he said eagerly--- "It is very kind of Mrs.Craven to say that.
Of course I will come if she really cares about it.
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